Posts by Elmer Phud

Re: whut?

The dead elephant is in the room

Re: Will they think about the hinges

I remember when the open season was declared on cable TV - the amount of duplicated road digging and empty green boxes was a tad over the top.

Personally I wouldn't mind one outside my place though - I'm FTTC with an OH feed.

Re: What's the big deal...

"Poisoning rivers and lakes is the price we must pay for cheap food?"

No --- cheap cars, tellies, clothes, computers etc.etc.

Re: "... shoe laces "

My shoe laces keep coming undone - they get caught in the font gears on my bike and are prematurely frayed.

Aglets disappear, the lace gets shorter, fraying increases.

Life - in one form or another - goes on.

Re: Fast charging

"I also doubt that there are many garages that would pay to have super high power cabling routed to their premises, at least initially."

I'd have thought that many garages (well, at east in Blighty) have a three phase supply.

Re: Carbon Footprint

"I know, we'll take a trip to the hills in our leccy car and have a picnic in the forest" . . .

Re: AMFM?

Can't be -- capitalisation is wrong and it reads as more of a rant.

AMFM gives us something to puzzle over - usually it's pretty good when deciphered.

Re: Don't like virgins as well now? Why don't they just admit it and outlaw being female.

Pedestals

first say how they are revered, then put them on a pedestal to be looked at but also as it's easier to throw things at them.

"Any of you lot women?"

Re: Offshore

Well, we've got 'Troll Bridge' so it can't be all that bad.

Re: Beloved Hacker

"Call me old fashioned, but a crime is a crime, as defined by where it's committed."

You're old fashioned.

A crime is a crime as defined by those who make the laws.

I'm sure that there are loads of 'crimes' you see as not being either worth of the title 'crime' or are inhumane and thus the criminals are those who pursue the accused.

Re: Alternatively... coaches

"Or do you imagine they would happily take coaches instead? I don't see it myself - it's not the same experience at all."

Hmm, sMegabus and 'electronic ciggies'.

or Divine Comedy's 'National Express'?

But can it play . . .

"Curiosity doesn't have much by today's standards.It was designed years ago.

256MB of RAM

250KB of ROM

2GB of flash storage"

Hmm, guess not.

Enough for Space Invaders and Asteroids

But you still have to pay for the water or access to the beach.

Re: i wonder

Bit of a long shot for the telly ad -- "Have you had LOHAN landing on your face?"

Re: Oh, bit more trivia...

Ring Modulator - built one from a kit.

Re: Elite v grassroots

"However the one change that is almost impossible to engineer is the one that values the activities of kids' on the sports field "

Too late - schools were encouraged to go for the cash, local boroughs sold off sports centres to private gym companies.

Huge amounts of wonga spent on ensuring gold's this time, unlikely to be the same for the next Olympics as it wont be in blighty.

Re: a bit Pc

There was one with a baseball bat once

Re: Hmm, home delivery

You assume that you'd get yoghurt.

Two four packs -- that makes eight.

You get eight lumps of cheese instead - a simple dairy product substitution.

Re: Yeah, those evil researchers

An old one but --- would you ever buy a dog shampoo that's not been tested on animals?

Re: Once again, I just feel sorry for the lawyers.

Why?

They don't lose out, it's not one of the standard 'ambulance chaser' jobs.

No problems for the early release people - W8SP1 will be in its way soon.

Re: This could be interesting to watch

Of course they won't be in their present state in years to come.

Whatever 'they'll' be called will be playing with what ever tech is available to them.

Some of us remember when phone phreaking was the work of the devil and his/her/its acolytes (Some of us remember when you could buy the Anarchist Cookbook in bookshops, too).

Having some form of anarchistic collective is like trying to herd cats and toddlers at the same time.

Re: So it's not only faster but...

Niet!

We now have a Zil lane for important people and a non-Olympic lane for everyone else.